Kevin Kilner is a highly
accomplished actor who has
enjoyed a wide range of roles in
film, theater and television.
Moviegoers will see him this fall
with Brenda Blethyn, Martha
Plimpton, Jude Law and Jon
Tenney in "Music from Another
Room," which will open at the
New York Film Festival in
September 1997. He also stars
as the father in the new "Home
Alone 3," due out this Christmas.
Kilner's additional work in feature
films includes "Twenty Bucks"
with Christopher Lloyd, the Blake
Edwards comedy "Switch"
starring Ellen Barkin and Jimmy
Smits, "The Stoned Age," "Shoot"
and Rafal Zelinski's "Under
Surveillance."
Kilner is best known to television audiences for his co-starring role opposite Nancy Travis in the first season of the CBS comedy series "Almost Perfect." His other credits on the small screen include the television movies "Murder in Paradise," "Lady Against the Odds" and "Timepiece," as well as guest-starring roles on such series as "China Beach," "L.A. Law" and "Tales From the Crypt."
Kilner has also performed in a number of stage productions. For his starring role opposite Julie Harris as The Gentleman Caller in the critically acclaimed 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," he received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for "Outstanding Debut Performance," a Drama Desk nomination for "Outstanding Featured Performance" and a Theatre World Award for "Outstanding Debut Performance." Kilner's other theater credits include the off-Broadway production of "Night and Her Stars" and regional theater productions of "Burn This," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Marriage of Bette & Boo" and "Spike Heels." He is also a co-founder of INCLINE, The Theatre Group, which premiered two Joe Pintauro plays -- "Metropolitan Operas" and the acclaimed production of "Raft of the Medusa," both in Los Angeles.
Kevin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was raised in a nearby rural farming community. He earned a degree in social and behavioral science from Johns Hopkins Univerity, where he was a midfielder on three straight NCAA Lacrosse Championship teams from 1978 to 1980. Following graduation, he entered the world of business as a commercial banker. Dissatisfied with this choice, he began taking acting classes at night and in 1985, sold everything and moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He has worked steadily ever since, and continues to make his home in New York City.
Kevin Kilner stars as William Boone, a former police captain who is secretly drafted
to join the human resistance after the Companions recruit him as Commander of
Security and InterSpecies Relations, in "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict,"
premiering in national syndication this fall. Tenuously caught between two worlds,
Boone walks a tightrope knowing that any question of his allegiance by either
side may cost him his life.
In his starring role, Kilner is poised to join the ranks of Roddenberry heroes -- Star
Trek's Captain Kirk (William Shatner), The Next Generation's Jean-Luc Picard
(Patrick Stewart), Deep Space Nine's Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and
Voyager's Captain Cathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).
Committing to series television was a big decision for Kilner, who had just
completed work on the feature films "Music From Another Room" with Brenda
Blethyn and Martha Plimpton, and "Home Alone 3." He was deciding whether to
begin another feature film project when he met with two of the series' executive
producers, David Kirschner and Majel Barrett Roddenberry. "They were terrific. I
asked a lot of questions and they gave me very clear and invigorating answers
that got me very excited about the project. So I went with my gut and my heart
...this was too good a project to pass up!"
A highly accomplished actor in film, theater and television, Kilner is best known to
television audiences for his co-starring role opposite Nancy Travis in the first
season of the CBS comedy series "Almost Perfect." His other credits on the small
screen include lead roles in the television movies "Murder in Paradise," "Lady
Against the Odds" and "Timepiece," as well as guest-starring roles on such series
as "China Beach," "L.A. Law" and "Tales from the Crypt."
He has performed in a number of stage productions. For his starring role opposite
Julie Harris as The Gentleman Caller in the critically acclaimed 50th Anniversary
Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," he received an
Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Debut Performance, a Drama Desk
nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance and a Theatre World Award for
Outstanding Debut Performance.
Kilner's other theater credits include the off-Broadway production of "Night and
Her Stars" and regional theater productions of "Burn This," "A Streetcar Named
Desire," "The Marriage of Bette & Boo" and "Spike Heels."
He is also a co-founder of INCLINE, The Theatre Group, which premiered two Joe
Pintauro plays -- "Metropolitan Operas" and the acclaimed production of "Raft of
the Medusa," both in Los Angeles.
Kilner's experience as a stage actor has strongly influenced his approach to his
work, including the daily rigors of series television. "Theater teaches you how to
communicate a very specific moment and emotion to an audience eight times a
week. It's a discipline and technique that prepares you very well for doing many
takes with a camera."
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Kilner was raised in a rural farming community in
Maryland. He was an economics major, English lit minor at Johns Hopkins
University, where he was also a midfielder on three straight NCAA Lacrosse
Championship teams from 1978-1980. After graduating, Kilner entered the world
of business as a commercial banker but was promptly disillusioned. So, while
keeping his day job, he went back to night school for a couple of semesters to
study journalism and fiction writing. But that wasn't the answer either. "I got
progressively more depressed because I thought `I don't want to work alone,
and writing is a lonely profession.'" Acting had always been one of Kilner's
fantasies and he finally decided to take an introduction to acting class at the
Baltimore Dance Center. In 1985, he sold everything he owned and moved to
New York City, where he still resides, to pursue an acting career.
Kilner's rugged physical appeal comes naturally but a month's worth of martial
arts training with a fifth degree black belt helped him prepare for the physical
challenges of playing William Boone in "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict."
Being a fan of science fiction also benefited Kilner as he researched his role. "I'm a
big fan of Gene's work. As a boy, like millions and millions of people worldwide,
`Star Trek' meant an awful lot to me. Anybody who had a TV set watched `Star
Trek.' In preparing for this series, I looked at some of the old `Star Trek' episodes
and feature films. I looked at the `Alien' movies again and also `Blade Runner.'"
In describing his colleagues' characters in the series, Kilner notes, "Sandoval
(played by Von Flores) and Boone in some way remind me of Romulus and Remus.
They are brothers, tied together by a bond, in that they both have been
implanted with the Cyber- Virus and they both have a Skrill (an alien life form
bioengineered by the Taelons for use as a weapon by Implants) and both are
very close to Da'an, the Taelon who is the Ambassador to the United States.
They're also constantly at odds with each other, like Harrison Ford and Tommy
Lee Jones in `The Fugitive'."
"Lili Marquette (played by Lisa Howard) is really Boone's partner and teammate.
They watch each other's backs."
"I think of Da'an (played by Leni Parker) the way that someone would think of His
Holinesss The Dalai Lama. He's a truly enlightened being who has an incredible
amount to teach. There's true wisdom in Da'an."
"Doors (played by David Hemblen) is the mythical king figure. Doors is connected
to everything in obvious ways and, in very unobvious ways, dark ways, he's really
King Lear."
Of his own character, Kilner says, "I think he has the strongest moral compass of
anyone. He's at odds with the Companions, and he's at odds with anyone who's
resisting them if either one is out of line. He really walks his own path. The
characters in the series who are supposedly, ostensibly, fighting for freedom in
our story, do some nasty things at times and Boone calls them on it. Boone has
complete regard and concern for the fragility of life and how precious it is, so...he
walks his own path."
The Burning Factor File
Unofficial Kevin Kilner Page
Smart House (1999) (TV)
Point Last Seen (1998) (TV) ....
Kevin Harrison
Music From Another Room
(1998) .... Hank
Home Alone 3 (1997) .... Jack
"Earth: Final Conflict" (1997) TV
Series .... Commander William
Boone (1997-1998)
... aka "Gene Roddenberry's
Battleground Earth" (1997)
(USA)
... aka "Gene Roddenberry's
Earth: Final Conflict" (1997)
Timepiece (1996) (TV) ....
David Parkin
"Almost Perfect" (1995) TV Series
.... Mike Ryan (season 1)
Stoned Age, The (1994) ....
Officer Dean
... aka Tack's Chicks (1994)
Heartbeat (1993) (TV) ....
Steven Towers
... aka Danielle Steel's 'Heartbeat'
(1993) (TV)
Twenty Bucks (1993) .... Gary
Adams
Lady Against the Odds (1992)
(TV) .... Steve Zimmerman
Heroes of Desert Storm, The
(1992) (TV) .... Capt. Shupp
Switch (1991) .... Dan Jones
Under Surveillance (1991)
83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990) (TV)
.... Bobby Dankworth
Murder in Paradise (1990) (TV)
.... Charlie
"Touched by an Angel"(1994) playing "?" in episode:
"Til Death Do Us Part" (episode # 601) 10
"Frasier" (1993) playing "Steve
Garrett" in episode: "Roz and the
Schnoz" (episode # 5.21) 5/5/1998
"Encore! Encore!" (1998) playing
"Ken" in episode: "Crime &
Punishment" (episode # 1.9)
"Poltergeist: The Legacy" (1996)
playing "David Praeger" in episode:
"Signalman, The" (episode # 1.19)
9/6/1996
"Empty Nest" (1988) playing
"Jerry Duvall" in episode:
"Ex-appeal" (episode # 4.14)
1/11/1992
"Murder She Wrote" playing
"Eugene Gillrich" in episode:
"For Whom the Ball Tolls" (episode # 10-2) 9/26/93
"Murder She Wrote" playing
"Paul Marlow" in episode:
"Sugar & Spice,Malice & Vice"
"China Beach" (1988) in episode:
"Phoenix" (episode # 3.19) 3/21/1990
"Tales from the Crypt" (1989) in episode:
"The Sacrifice" (episode # 1.11) 5/15/90
"L.A. Law" (1999) in episode:
"The Sacrifice" (episode # 1.11) 5/15/90
"Jake and the Fatman" in episode: (episode # unknown)
"Dinner with Friends" - Variety Arts Theatre, New York - October 21-December 31, 1999
"The Glass Menagerie" - Broadway - critically acclaimed 50th Anniversary revival
THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams
(Starring Julie Harris, Zeljko Ivanek, Calista Flockhart and Kevin Kilner)
Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play -- Kevin Kilner
Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Debut of an Actor -- Kevin Kilner
Theatre World Awards -- Calista Flockhart and Kevin Kilner
"Spike Heels"
"Night and her Stars"
"A Streetcar named Desire"
"Burn This"
"The Marriage of Bette & Boo"
Dinner with Friends" and http://www.kevinkilner.com
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PhilosophySphere Chat
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Johns Hopkins Gazette
A Space Legacy
Kevin Kilner Report
SciFi News July 21, 1999
Starburst #253
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Episode Number
October 6
Decision (Series Premiere)
#101
October 13
Truth
#102 October 20
Miracle
#103 October 27
Avatar
#104 November 3
Old Flame
#105
November 10
Float Like a Butterfly
#106
November 17
Resurrection
#107
November 24
Horizon Zero
#108
December 29
Scorpion's Dream
#109
January 5
Live Free or Die
#110
January 12
The Scarecrow Returns
#111
January 19
Sandoval's Run
#112
February 2
The Secret of Strandhill
#113
February 9
Pandora's Box
#114
February 16
If You Could Read My Mind
#115
February 23
The Wrath of Achilles
#116
April 13
The Devil You Know
#117
April 20
Law & Order
#118
April 27
Through the Looking Glass
#119
July 27
Infection
#120 May 4
Destruction
#121 May 11
The Joining (Season Finale)
#122
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